Reply To: Industrial Negligence or Capital Liquidity?

[Darrin Rodriguez]

WFMZ-TV, the local news reported “The impact of the explosion was so forceful that it moved the building, which also houses a church and apartments, 4 feet forward. ”

for a gas incident to happen, the facility floor would have to be flooded with high concentration of gas for it to ignite in an open space, the employees would have suffocated on gas before the concentation of gas in the air is sufficent for ignition.

as for an explosion of this magnitude? wow, you would need “the perfect storm” for some kind of heavy gas line to be exposed and to contain sufficent combustible under HIGH PRESSURE to react in this manner.  Just gas in open air igniting from a spark does not cause a massive explosion, it just causes a momentary fireball that dissipates and burns off the gas in a nice flame out.  Explosion requires both ignition and massive quantity of stored gas (or flammables) under pressure to heat up and burst.  People connect the two from fiction in television but in real life it does not happen the way you see it on tv shows.